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LoJack® System Helps Law Enforcement Recover a Stolen Honda Civic

  • October 17, 2014
  • recovery stories
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The owner of a Honda Civic parked their car in the parking lot of a hospital in Miami Lakes. The keys to the vehicle were left in the center console of the car. Later that day when they returned, they discovered their vehicle missing from the parking lot. The owner contacted the Miami-Dade Police Department to report their vehicle stolen. The responding officer prepared a stolen vehicle report and theft affidavit and had the vehicle’s information entered into the state and federal crime computers. This routine police procedure automatically activated the LoJack® System concealed in the 4-door sedan. Within minutes of activation a Miami-Dade Police Department officer picked up the silent LoJack® System homing signal from the stolen Civic on their on-board LoJack® System Police Tracking Computer (PTC), which assists law enforcement officers to locate stolen vehicles quickly and safely. The officer began tracking the stolen vehicle by following the directional and audible cues on their PTC’s screen. The officer, along with their backup, located the vehicle abandoned in a parking lot just 3 blocks away. The 4-door sedan was recovered, released to the owner, who responded to the scene, and removed from federal and state crime computer systems.

The LoJack® Stolen Vehicle Recovery System was installed in the 1997 Silver Honda Civic 4-door sedan in November, 1996.


Printed from the LoJack Recovery Story Library.

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